Transnational Discourses on Genitals - Einzelansicht

If you want to join the course you are asked to contact me vie email. You will get access to moodle and instructions how to prepare to class for the next block and you will be notified of any changes when it comes to schedule. If you are already registered on PULS but didn't confirm your participation vie email please do so. 

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the intricate connections between the production of knowledge regarding race, religion, gender, class, migration, nationalism, and genitalia from a transnational perspective. With a focus on critical analysis, it investigates how colonialism and coloniality influence perceptions of genitalia and racialized bodies across borders. Students will delve into the historical impacts of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary discussions surrounding genitalia. Using transdisciplinary methods, including animal studies, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and queer feminist perspectives, students will examine topics such as the medicalization and pathologization of racialized bodies. The course will also challenge the notion of genitalia as sexual organs through literature on naming practices and other discursive, state and economic mechanism which influence our understanding of genitals. Furthermore, by exploring debates on circumcision and female genital mutilation in the contexts of religion and migration, the course will analyze the relationship between gender and the commodification of bodies in a globalized society. Through critical engagement with scholarly texts and case studies, students will develop a nuanced understanding of how knowledge production on race, religion, gender, class, migration, and nationalism, alongside colonial histories, intersect to shape discussions on genitalia within diverse socio-political frameworks. The students' own situatedness will be considered as part of critically reading texts. In this manner, students will learn to engage critically with knowledge production on a global scale from their own positionality. 

Bakshi, Sandeep, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco, eds. Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. Oxford: Counterpress, 2016.

no prior knowledge is needed. However, sensitivity to the topics that will be discussed is a must. 

Interest in the topic as well as engagement in the class through reading and discussion is very important. 

The tasks in the course will include a few written assigments, a presentation as well as your own small scale research project. 

it is possible to get a grade with an oral exam or written paper. Please discuss this with me during the semester.